[Xastir] Re: Problems plotting positions in Xastir downloaded from a RINO

[Jim Tolbert]

Hi, Curt..........

/Perhaps one of these things is occurring:  *) The remote RINO doesn't 
have a valid position to send (no GPS lock?)/

    When I drove to work, I took the set up and ran it.  Both Rinos (
    one attached to the laptop and the remote Rino) had 3D GPS locks and
    were transmitting their position between each other when I keyed the
    mic.

/Are you getting a RINO.gpstrans file written, and is it in the above 
format? Should be in ~/.xastir/gps/RINO.gpstrans./
W 	APRS 4 	                                         	 12/05/2007 
10:08:23 	46.01855 	-91.4877
W 	APRS14 	                                         	 12/05/2007 
10:08:23 	45.8571 	-92.3651


There were several entries, but all of them were date stamped at the 
time that I opened GPSMan and GPS Receiver>Get>WP.  Only two entries 
were from when I have been using this pair of Rinos.   Both were from 
the testing we were doing in Hayward ( before you suggested the commands 
to allow serial port communications.)  So I guess that means that GPSMan 
is not getting the info, even though GPSMan thinks it is talking to the 
serial port.   So I guess that points to either GPSMan is not 
downloading what is stored in the Rino or the Rino is not storing the 
data.   I will work on that.


Many thanx............. jt

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote:
>
>   
>> I seem to be getting packets from GPSMan in Xastir, but they are not
>> plotting.  If I look at the two tables in "View>All Stations" and
>> "View>Own Objects & Items",  I see "14" with 860 in the #Pack column and
>> "APX192,TCPIP*" in the Path column.  There is nothing in the Pos Time or
>> the PHG or Comments columns.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure there should be anything in the PHG or Comments
> columns.  I don't have RINO's to test with but I expect there should
> be a timestamp in the "Pos Time" column if you've been getting valid
> positions for the remote unit.
>
> PHG is Power/Height/Gain.  Should be empty in this instance.
>
> The "14" is a positive sign, as is the #Pack (number of packets)
> column.  This suggests that you are getting some packets from the
> remote RINO.
>
> If you look at the "View->Mobile Stations" column, does "14" show up
> there with a position?
>
> Perhaps one of these things is occurring:
> *) The remote RINO doesn't have a valid position to send (no GPS
>    lock?).
> *) Xastir isn't parsing the waypoints file properly that GPSMan is
>    creating from the data.
> *) GPSMan isn't writing the data file in the same format as it used
>    to.
>
> The INSTALL file talks about RINO's but it seems to indicate that
> the RINO radio cannot poll the others without setting the POLL
> function in the local RINO.
>
> main.c:
> -------
> // Function to process the RINO.gpstrans file.  We'll create APRS
> // objects out of them as if our own callsign created them.  Lines
> // in the file look like this (spaces removed):
> //
> // W  N3EG3  20-JUN-02 17:55  07/08/2004 13:03:29  46.1141682  -122.9384817
> // W  N3JGI  20-JUN-02 18:29  07/08/2004 13:03:29  48.0021644  -116.0118324
> //
> // Fields are:
> // W  name   Comment          Date/Time            Latitude    Longitude
> //
> void process_RINO_waypoints(void) {
> ...
>     // Process the file line-by-line here.  The format for gpstrans
>     // files as written by GPSMan appears to be:
>     //
>     //   "W"
>     //   Waypoint name
>     //   Comment field (Date/Time is default on Garmins)
>     //   Date/Time
>     //   Decimal latitude
>     //   Decimal longitude
> ---------------------------
>
> Are you getting a RINO.gpstrans file written, and is it in the above
> format?   Should be in ~/.xastir/gps/RINO.gpstrans.
>
> It looks like the command Xastir invokes to download the waypoints
> is something like this:
>
> "gpsman.tcl -dev /dev/ttyS0 getwrite WP GPStrans ~/.xastir/gps/RINO.gpstrans"
>
> You could try that by hand to see if a file gets written and check
> it against the above format.
>
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